wordmark for visual artist

It looks as if she will phasing out the hiddenplacestudio and pushing her uncommon and gorgeous name. There might be graphics involved but the name will have prominence.

Key words are, empowerement, luxury, contemporary, approachability and possibly subtly suggest her asian influence (specifically japanese). The artist's voice is currently in flux and seems to be coalescing into what you see at the following link

Perhaps I didn't express myself clearly. I'm designing a word mark for an artist. I am to set her name, Shayla in a font - possibly modified - that expresses empowerment, luxury, approachable, contemporary and possibly subtly suggest the Japanese influence found in her work.

I don’t know if they have any of the qualities you are looking for but I would consider a simple humanist sans, Bliss or Gill (or perhaps Umbra), to contrast with the artworks rather than something that has similar qualities.

Anyway, I think you're aiming *way* too high -- five "keywords" which appear to be contradictory with each other to the common sense. I wouldn't even know how to unify "empowerment" with "luxury", or "luxury" with "approachability" -- I'd say "luxury" pretty much negates the other two.

If anyone actually pulls it off to deliver something that echoes all your five "keywords" to the majority of the audience, I'd call him a grandmaster of design without any hesitance.

I'm not even sure what you mean by "empowerment". Usually it means the gaining of social-political influence by a group of people with a certain social-political agenda. But that's probably not what you mean.

So it might be better for you to describe what you want to achieve with more than just one word. If I don't know what to associate with the term "empowerment" even when it's spelt out in front of me, I certainly won't know it any better when it's "symbolized" somehow in a wordmark.

Woman is stuck in an abusive relationship, never takes the time to get to know herself. One day she's had enough and decides I want to be a (insert career of choice). Having gotten that education and a satisfying career she wants to have the comforts never allowed to her. It's an eff u to the world so to speak, "I'm allowed to be happy". She decides to commission a piece of artwork to celebrate her new found freedom. She hires Shayla because the brand and artwork express what she is feeling.

I'm thinking of focusing on the single most unique feature of her art, the japanese mon.

It is present in all of her recent pieces and sometimes encompasses the entire piece. She intends to make this her trademark. Nobody else does this so we figure it's good to insist on it and make it memorable. The shape is always the same, a circle within a square but the color and texture and designs/compositions vary so I'm locking on to the shape but it could easily incorporate color and texture. What say you?